Suppliers in Color Luster: Violet

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EMD is the North America name of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt Germany. The portfolio of our Performance Materials business is as diverse as the colors of the rainbow – be it groundbreaking liquid crystals and OLED materials for displays, materials for the production of integrated circuits or effect pigments for coatings and color cosmetics or functional materials for energy solutions. We are the world market and technology leader in liquid crystals. Unstoppable in our quest to advance display technology, our products have enabled razor-sharp images in smartphones, laptops, flat-screen TVs and tablet PCs around the world. We also lead the global market in pearlescent pigments. They add shimmer to the paint on your car, sparkle to your lipstick and luminescence to the coating on your packaging. But our work with pigments goes beyond color and shimmer. Our functional pigments impart unique physical properties to many diverse products, from antistatic floor coverings and counterfeit-proof product labels, to heat-reflecting blinds.

Presperse, founded in 1981 by the late Alan B. Black, began its success as a company based upon a single technology, and diverted portfolio from Color to Skin and Sun Care materials,in 2007, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas invested in Presperse for 20%, and then acquired the remaining 80% in 2010 together with Sumitomo Corporation to become a 100% Sumitomo Corporation subsidiary. Sumitomo Corporation is one of the worlds leading integrated global trading firms with trade, distribution and diversified industrial and consumer goods

Sandream Impact LLC was formed by merger of Sandream Enterprises LLC and Impact Colors Inc. With its expanded R&D and production site, Sandream Impact has more space and equipment for color matching, formulation, new color development, surface treatment, blending and dispersion services. Its specialties include color travel pearls on different substrates, fluorphlogopite and aluminum based high definition colors, natural ester dispersed pigments, soft focus and bismuth powders, clinically proven anti-aging, whitening and brightening agents, formulations/ingredients/delivery systems to enhance long wear, penetration, feel etc.